Tim Mudd

Track Premiere: Ordh – “Apis Bull”

February 25, 2026

Hear the first single from Blind In Abyssal Realms, the debut from progressive death metallers Ordh, whose Pulverised debut drops April 17.

Mini-Album Premiere: Hating Life – Revenge From Beyond

February 25, 2026

On debut release Revenge From Beyond, Hating Life meet your HM-2 expectations—while still leaving room for something personal to emerge from the decay.

Single & Video Premiere: Graufar – “Foltertrog”

February 18, 2026

Graufar return with the third single from their upcoming full-length, Via Necropolis, steeped in blackened death metal ferocity with a slow-burning sense of dread.

Video Premiere: Hibernaut – “Mark of Shame”

February 11, 2026

Utah doom crushers Hibernaut return with a harrowing new video for “Mark of Shame.” The track appears on the band’s upcoming split LP with Arizona extreme outfit Face Pulp, due March 6 via What’s Left Records.

Full Album Stream: Fossilization – Advent of Wounds

February 11, 2026

Emerging from the abyssal depths of the underground, Fossilization return with Advent of Wounds, a suffocating descent into death metal extremity that sharpens every weapon the Brazilian duo has wielded so far.

Video Premiere: Beltfed Weapon – “Digital Genesis”

February 4, 2026

Seattle’s Beltfed Weapon new single, “Digital Genesis,” hits like a chrome-plated thrash hammer to the skull.

Track & Video Premiere: In Aeternum – “The Vile God of Slime”

January 22, 2026

Swedish black/death metal veterans In Aeternum are closing the chapter on their long-awaited return with “The Vile God of Slime,” the second and final single to be revealed from their upcoming album …Of Death and Fire, due February 6.

Video Premiere: COGADH – ‘Cromwell’s Curse’

January 21, 2026

Ontario/Quebec black metal duo COGADH unleash their debut full-length, Kingmaker, on March 6. But today we premiere the video for single “Cromwell’s Curse”

VITAMIN X Return With New Single and Video “Chop Chop Chop”

January 14, 2026

Amsterdam hardcore thrash lifers Vitamin X return with the video for “Chop Chop Chop,” the first single from their upcoming full-length, Ride the Apocalypse, due March 13 via Svart Records.

Video Premiere: Sidian – “Pendular | Amidst the Hysterics of Gloom”

December 23, 2025

After 15 years of carving a singular, emotionally lacerating path through underground metal, Sidian returns with new music—and, as it turns out, a definitive farewell.

Catalog Reissue Alert: Lip Cream

December 17, 2025

Relapse invites you to the apply the wild catalog of Japanese noisemongers Lip Cream via a new set of stunning reissues.

Video Premiere: Morbikon – ‘Flames That Blind and Shadows Cast’

December 10, 2025

Blackened death thrash conjurors Morbikon return with the third chapter of their animated medieval-fantasy saga taken from their new full-length Lost Within the Astral Crypts, out now on Tankcrimes.

Full Album Stream: House by the Cemetary – Disturbing the Cenotaph

December 10, 2025

Hear Horror-obsessed death metal lunatics House by the Cemetary deliver 30 filthy minutes of sharpened bone saws, sewer-stench groove, and classic Fulci-drenched death.

Full Stream: It Haunts – No Light to Save Me

December 3, 2025

Melodic metallers It Haunts arrive with the kind of debut EP that doesn’t feel like a beginning so much as an overdue emergence.

Track Premiere: Sire Languish – ‘Heaven’s Night’

November 19, 2025

Sometimes a solo project lands sounding exactly like the person who made it. Sire Languish, the new project from avant-metal lifer Garett Bussanick, is one of those cases.

Album Stream: Withering Soul – ‘Passage of the Arcane’

November 12, 2025

Chicago’s Withering Soul return with their fifth full-length, Passage of the Arcane — a blackened melodic death metal odyssey steeped in cursed lore, burning melodies, and an atmosphere as chilling as grave-silt air

Interview: Cro-Mags’ Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos, Built for Survival

November 10, 2025

Legendary Cro-Mags frontman Harley Flanagan talks Wired for Chaos, the new documentary about his incomparable life and career, available November 11.

Track Premiere: Primal Scourge – ‘Necromantic Plague’

November 3, 2025

Knoxville’s Primal Scourge rise from the mire with ‘Necromantic Plague,’ the second single from their apocalyptic debut full-length, End of Eden, out November 14 via Iron Fortress Records.

Album Premiere: Burned in Effigy – Tyrannus Aeternum

October 29, 2025

Hear Chicago’s Burned in Effigy return with a full-length inferno that marries neoclassical precision to melodic death metal mayhem.

Album Premiere: Thron — ‘Vurias’

October 29, 2025

German black metallers Thron thrive on transformation. Join them on the path via Vurias before it arrives October 31 on Listenable Records!

Album Premiere: Tombs – Feral Darkness (Redefining Darkness)

October 15, 2025

Hear New Jersey stalwarts Tombs return from the catacombs with Feral Darkness, a record that feels less like a “comeback” and more like a blood-moon ascension.

Track Premiere: Something Is Waiting – “Poster Boys” (Live)

October 8, 2025

Hear a selection from Something Is Waiting‘s forthcoming live LP, Livelick, out October 24 on Learning Curve Records.

Track Premiere: Cemetery Moon – “The Black Keep”

October 7, 2025

Hear the title track from the forthcoming full-length LP from USBM phenoms Cemetery Moon.

Album Premiere: Liminal Erosion – “In the Time Vulture’s Talons”

September 25, 2025

Gainesville’s extreme metal alchemist Myk Colby (Wharflurch, Plasmodulated, Hot Graves) has returned from the void with a brand-new death doom vessel: Liminal Erosion.

Ludicra Premiere — “In Stable” (Live)

September 24, 2025

San Francisco post-black metal luminaries Ludicra unveil “In Stable” from their upcoming live digital album, a document of their triumphant hometown return at the Great American Music Hall.

MIKE: Elijah Howe’s Poignant Tribute to His Father, Metal Church Vocalist Mike Howe

September 17, 2025

Elijah Howe, the son of late Metal Church vocalist Mike Howe, discusses his new art/photography book MIKE, which captures Howe as a frontman and father.

Album Premiere: YOTUMA – ‘The Final Void’

September 10, 2025

Brutality meets craftsmanship in The Final Void, the crushing new full-length from Wisconsin death dealers YOTUMA—and we’re streaming the entire record exclusively here.

Video Premiere: Prisoner – “Double Vision”

September 3, 2025

Watch Calgary’s Prisoner, crank the amps and swing for the fences with their new video for “Double Vision.”

Album Premiere: Erosion – ‘Invasive Species’

August 27, 2025

Seven years after their punishing debut on Hydra Head Records, Vancouver’s Erosion return with Invasive Species—a filthy, blood-boiling follow-up that finds the band operating at peak ferocity.

Video Premiere: Tar Pit – “Jubilee”

August 13, 2025

From the smoke-choked crypts of Portland rises Tar Pit, casting long shadows with their latest doom-soaked incantation, “Jubilee.” We’re premiering the video for this haunting slab of eldritch doom—a term the band doesn’t just invoke, but embodies.